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Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all – in private – deeplyanxious. There is so much that worries us across our days andnights:whether our hopes will come true, whether others will like us,whether the people we care about will be OK,whether we can escape humiliation and grief...Too often, we bottle up our anxieties or try to avoid looking at themdirectly. We are ashamed of how worried we are and end up feeling isolated and yet more worried. None of this is necessary. Anxiety isdeeply normal and, like so much else that troubles our minds, it can be understood and brought under our control. We all deserve towake up every day without a sense of forebodingThis is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience itwhen it strikes and what we can do when we come under itsinfluence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from anumber of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate and, in thebest sense, practicalWe have suffered for too long under the rule of anxiety. Here – atlast – is a pathway to a calmer, more compassionate and morelight-hearted futureTopics Include:• How could we be anything but …?• Anxiety & Evolution• Anxiety & Modern Times• Varieties of Anxiety• An Ideal Life for the AnxiousHardback book | 111 pages | Colour photographs